Crescent Lake Area, Walt Disney World
No Swimming?
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8, 1/200s, 32mm, f/16, ISO 200
No Swimming?
Category Archives: photography
Earth Day
Flower & Garden Festival, Epcot
With yesterday being John Muir‘s birthday (the Father of the National Parks) and today is Earth Day I thought it appropriate to share this image of Mickey in the National Park Foundation display at Epcot’s Flower & Garden Festival.
National Park Mickey
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8, 1/125s, 24mm, f/16, ISO 200
Marina
Onondaga Yacht Club Marina
Marina
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8, 1/160s, 24mm, f/16, ISO 200
Remnants
In The Yard – ITY08
What I love about this image is the various contrasting elements. There is the crisp, focused head of the goldenrod contrasted with the blurry, unrecognizable background. And then there is the light to dark contrasting layers of the background. Once I tell you the background is the pasture and barn next door you can make out the shapes but before that it is a blur of colors. This is the type of image I use to capture when I started photography and one I don’t return to often enough. Another in my In The Yard series…
Remnants
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 60mm f/2.8, 1/80s, f/5.6, ISO 200
Cruisin’
Monochrome Monday
Onondaga Lake
Cruisin’
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 40-150mm f/4-5.6 R, 1/320s, 150mm, f/16, ISO 200
The Light & Dark of It
Onondaga Lake Park
I have driven by the top end of Onondaga Lake Park for as long as I have lived in Central New York. Since I have been doing this photography thing I have been thinking to myself that I need to stop and explore this park. Well, it only took four years for me to make it there…
On Saturday my daughter had the Biology GRE test at Onondaga Community College. Although she has been enjoying her independence with the car I wasn’t sure even I could find my way to the college without some help from the GPS and who wants to fight a drive to an unknown location before a big test? I took the opportunity to go exploring after I dropped her off at the college. I had about four hours to myself, so the expansive park was all mine to explore. I started at the main entrance off Route 370 just North of Destiny USA.
This image is one of the first views that caught my eye. I loved the varying shades of blue and the reflection of the trees. It didn’t hurt to have the stone wall leading toward my subject trees either. Typically I would have stayed with a landscape orientation but by flipping to portrait I was able to focus in more on the trees and their reflection while using the wall as a contrasting angle and leading line.
The Light & Dark of It
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8, 1/200s, 14mm, f/11, ISO 200
Bokeh Barb
Squared – SQ89
In The Yard – ITY07
While I was away on a business trip I had some extra time in the morning before I needed to head over to the supplier I was visiting so I was able to read a few more articles every morning. One article in particular at Digital Photography School lead me down a path and has me thinking a little more about how and what I photograph. It was Do Visual Push-Ups Everyday to Grow as a Photographer by Valérie Jardin. This of course brought me to her website and now another photographer I will be checking in on to read more articles.
What really struck me was the projects she uses to keep herself learning and exploring. The I thought about all the various projects or themes I have started over the past few years and how I do not keep them going. I get caught in trying to capture the big, beautiful sunset or the expansive landscape and forget about the little images all around me.
Last night after I got home from the trip and unpacked everything I grabbed the camera for a walk around the yard. There were quite a lot of opportunities and I decided I need to work on my In The Yard series. Images I capture while walking my yard and fields around the house. Of course, the first one I really liked was from the barbed wire fence. I guess you can’t break with tradition…
Bokeh Barb
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 Macro, 1/250s, f/2.8, ISO 200
Wordless Wednesday: Crane Alert
Melbourne, Florida
Squared – SQ88
Crane Alert
Olympus OM-D E-M1, M. Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8, 1/1250s, 40mm, f/5.6, ISO 200
